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Orissa Review July - 2010 Secret Mystery of Sri Daru Vigraha Sudarshan Sahoo Neelachal Dham, the glorious epitome of Rig Veda the ocean tastes salty. The salinity is equal every on the eastern coast has been identified as where. 'Prajnana Brahma' is the salinity of this 'Prajnana Brahma' by Sankaracharya. The great ocean. It is depicted in the Brihadaranyaka creamy four great sentences (Mahabakyas) of Rig Upanishad, 'Idam Mahadbhutam Anantam Veda, Yajurveda, Samveda and Atharvaveda are Aparam bijnana ghana eba.' It means, this 'Prajnana Brahma', 'Aham Brahmasmi', manifestative extravaganza of the Creator is 'Tattwamasi' and Ayamatma Brahma' respectively. endless and unsurpassable. Beyond Him there is 'Prajnana Brahma' belongs to Aitareya, 'Aham nothing. In Seventh Chapter of Gita, Srikrishna Brahmasmi' to Tejobindu, 'Tattwamasi' to explains : Chhandogya and 'Ayamatma Brahma' to Mandukya Upanishads. The complete words Mattah parataram nanyat kinchidasti Dhananjaya, containing the Mahabakya of Aitareya Upanishad Mayi sarbamidam protam sutre mani ganaiba. is Prajnane Pratisthitam Prajnanetrolokah ( O Dhananjaya, nothing is beyond me. All are Prajna Pratistha Prajnana Brahma. It explains intertwined with me like pearls in a thread). The that the one consciousness by whom all the living word 'Bijnana' is evolved from Bijnapti and non-living selves have existed being created (Exposure). As because he is pure exposition, he fromHiranyagarbha is manifested into all. The infinite metagalaxy is injected with the knowledge is known as 'Bijnana ghana'. The precipitated of Paramatma. It is created from Him, managed ocean water turns to a solid piece of salt. When by Him, delaged into Him. He has caused the the piece of salt dropped into ocean, it mingles in metagalaxy to keep steady, though He is infinitely water losing its identity. The metagalactic minute. Sri Vishnu Puranam narrates : splendour are the solid pieces of the great ocean. The solid forms as galaxies and universes are Adharabhuta Viswasya api aniyam samaniyasam, precipitated from 'Hiranyagarbha'. Hiranyagarbha Pranamya sarba bhutastham Achyutam is the intermediate blazed entity in between the Purusottamam. metagalactic ocean and precipitated pieces as (He is microfined into infinity in shape, still He galaxies. At the end of a cycle of creation, deluge upholds the metagalaxy; obeisance to Achyuta grasps the celestial objects. The universes with Purusottama.) galaxies get lost in the Hiranyagarbha and The infinite and inconceivable universe is ultimately the Hiranyagarbha evaporates into the a great ocean. A single drop from anywhere of cosmic infinity diminishing its glaze to zero. 1 Orissa Review July - 2010 Hiranyagarbha is infinite effulgence having no In Mandukya Upanishad, Paramatma is definite shape. Such is the hymn scriptured in the said to be quadruped- 'Sarbam hi etad Brahma Yajur Veda (32:3) : 'Na tasya pratima asti yasya Ayamatma Brahma soayamatma chatuspat.' nama Mahadyasa Hiranyagarbhah' means He means all are Brahma, this soul is Brahma, that has no image. His name is glorious Hiranyagarbha. this soul is quadruped. In the first step, the physical Similar citation is in the 1st Canto of Srimad sensible soul with its seven organs and ninteen Bhagabatam. faces enjoys the worldly matters. The seven organs are seven 'lokas' namely Bhuh, Bhubah, Lord speaks in the 15th chapter of Gita, Swah, Mahah, Janah, Tapah and Satyah. The 'Mameibanso jiva loke jiba bhutah sanatanah.' nineteen faces are ten sensory organs, five lives It means the perennial part of God is present in (Prana, Apana, Samana, Byana and Udana) and the body of creatures. Body is Nature and soul is four Antahkaranas (Mana, Buddhi, Chitta and God. According to 'Sankhya Darshan' both soul Ahankara). The Supreme Lord has manifested (Pradhan) and nature (Prakriti) are eternal. When Himself into this vast galactic exposure. In Vedic soul is encaged in a body, it is called 'Jiva'. The term, it is 'Bijnana' which means exposure into Jiva is subject to suffer from worldly miseries. It material being. So accordingly, a living body is perishes in the endless cycle of births and deaths. known as 'Bijnanamaya Atma'. The immense A physical form is called 'Khilya' or 'Khila'. It galactic exposition is the first step of Paramatma. interpretes to an object which can be seen, The second step of Sri Purusottama is touched, weighed, measured etc. In alternative 'Swapnasthan Taizaso Hiranyagarbhah.' In sense, 'Akhilya' or 'Akhila' is that which can't be dream someone experiences happenings, events seen nor touched nor measured etc. The 'khilya' etc. which have no real existence. But they do evaporates into the 'Akhila.' This 'Khila' or galactic exist in mysticism. In modern science, it could be splendour will some day mingle into the 'Akhila' explained in terms of astro-physics. The celestial ocean. When the Almighty intends to create, the bodies are consolidated forms of some invisible effulgent Hiranyagarbha appears having no shape. entity. After crores of years, time will come when Then blazed precipitations take formation into they will be finished as dead stars being lost in the intersteller galaxies and immense number of dark space. But their energy will exist as universes. Such created are the stars, suns, moons, transformed. When all the celestial bodies will be earths, air, water and other material factors. The finished, there will remain only invisible tenth 'Mandala' of Rig Veda scriptures : transformed energy; but effulgent. In Vedic term, 'Tamah asit tamasa gudhamagre, it is 'Taizaso Hiranyagarbhah'. It is also known Apraketam salilam sarbama idam, as 'Abyaktah'. All features and forms are created Tyachhenabhupilitam yadasit, from this 'Abyaktah'. In the volume 'Brahma Sutra' by Sankaracharya 'Hiranyagarbhah is identified Tapasah tanmahina ajayat ekam.' as 'Jyotischaranabhidhanat' which explains that ( In the foremost, it was densest darkness spread effulgence is one step of Paramatma. Apart from all over like inconceivable ocean without symptom. this second step, there are more and higher Nothing existed all around except deepest (deeper) steps. So this 'Hiranyagarbhah' seems nocturnal efficacy. The meditation of the Creator to wrap the Lord. In the 15th hymn of Isha culminated into effulgent precipitation evolving the Upanishad, this wrapping is hymned : galactic bodies and the sky, stars, sun, moon, earth 'Hiranmayen patrena Satyasapihitam mukham, etc. came into existence.) Tattwampushanapabrunu Satya Dharmaya Drustaye' 2 Orissa Review July - 2010 ( The face of Truth has been covered with the Yatha nadyah syandamanah samudre astam- sparkling effulgence. Hence, O Lord, kindly gachhanti nama rupe bihaya, remove that cover so that I can see the Truth and Tatha vidwan nama rupad bimuktah its principles.) Paramatma has been described as Paratpar purushamupeiti divyam. "Hiranyagarbhah" in the 25th chapter of Yajurveda. There is a chapter named 'Hiranyagarbhah Sukta' (As the flowing river loses its name and shape in Rig Veda.) after meeting the ocean, similarly the learned scholar having His knowledge gets salvation and The third step of Paramatma Purusottama lost into Him). is 'Susuptasthana Ekibhutah prajnanaghana ebanandamayo hyanandabhuk chetomukha The first three steps of quadruped prajnah.' As during a deep slumber there is no Paramatma is known as 'Aumkar'. The eighth dream, so above 'Hiranyagarbha' there is hymn of Mandukya Upanishad analyses these Paramatma beyond it. The stage of three steps as A, U and M. The first step A 'Hiranyagarbha' gets effulgence from Him. The represents the vast metamorphic manifestation of effulgence is the process of creation. In Vedic term, Lord, U represents the unmanifested effulgence it is narrated as meditation as written earlier. This known as 'Hiranyagarbha' and the third M third step of Paramatma is zero effulgent, calm, represents His unmanifested-uneffulgent state. He blissful, unstirred as in deep slumber. It is hymned is not subjected to expression; but can be in Katha Upanishad (2 : 2 : 15), Mundak expressed only by 'AUM' which represents the Upanishad (2 : 2 : 10), Swotaswatar Upanishad three modes of nature. He is beyond the modes. (6 :14) and Gita (15 : 12) apart from many When a devotee or meditator surrenders to Him puranic scriptures that the sun, moon, stars, with pronounciation of AUM, he starts with A. A lightening and fire are very insignificantly energised represents the vast manifestation. It gets lost into effulgence of the Supreme Lord. So He is in the U. U represents to effulgent Hiranyagarbha. The third step and above. In third step, He is known meditator feels the physical world lost in the glaze as 'Prajnah.' of 'Taizaso'. Having aimed his soul towards the The fourth step of Paramatma is, eternity, he feels escalated by losing bodily 'Amatraschaturtho abyabaharya experience. Next he slowly closes his lips prapanchopasamah sivoadwaita ebamonkar pronouncing M. This closure reveals that M is atmaiba sambisatyatmanatranam' - means the grasping U into it. M is the ceasation of effulgence. fourth step is inalphabetic which can't be brought Hiranyagarbha is lost in M. In this stage, the under action or utilization, manifestationless, the meditator is like in deep asleep when there is no only one, insparkable, beyond mind-tongue and dream situation. M is scriptured as 'Prajna'. blissful 'Siva tattwa'. The first three steps of Slowly the soul of meditator proceeds to the fourth Paramatma are with modes of nature; the fourth step where there is no
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